Sage rocks!
divendres, juliol 3rd, 2009When I studied some Calculus at uni, we had to use Maple. Maple is a good software, but it isn’t free and it’s obscenely expensive. By that time I knew a project called Sage; it was difficult to install and use and I trashed the package.
This afternoon, at Jornades de programari lliure, William Stein (associate professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington) made a short course about Sage, a free open source mathematical software. It’s been very pleasant, entertaining, and very interesting. With just a few indications we understood the basis of Sage and made some light algebra, 2D and 3D graphics. Indications are available here.